Monkey Business Nursery Theme
by Bobby Daniels
Dancing Monkies and Guitars
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MONKEY NURSERY DECORATIONS and ACCESSORIES
Being that most of our home is dark, I thought this would be a great opportunity to do something more cheerful. I mean, it is a kid’s room. I was a bit hesitant to change the paint color of the original trim, base, window casing and doors in our 1932 home. But upon a more detailed inspection it was determined that these items couldn’t be rehabbed to their original glory so they went back white.
After that, the wall color became a debate. The wife wanted to opt for a masculine hue, but I was able to convince her to go with something more gender neutral to be the background of our monkey business nursery theme. She thanked me for convincing her to use a neutral shade after we’d finished painting the last coat. It is a small room, but we definitely didn’t want to paint it again – for the next stork delivery. We used Rodda Paint "Water Magic" which is a minty green-blue.
Our trip to the local Babies R Us to register lead us to the "Pop Monkey" motif. We studied all the decor options that BRU had to offer, but nothing really jumped out at us until we saw this package in one of the side aisles. There was no turning back after this. We knew the monkey business nursery theme was for us. Though we only registered for a portion of the monkey gear, we were gifted everything from stuffed toy monkeys to monkey theme diaper bags decorated with furry monkey emblems.
The crib itself was one of the few non-monkified gifts that we used in our baby's nursery. It is Simplicity’s Ellis Cherry Convertible crib that looks great with the polka dots, brown and sage green fabric of the monkey baby bedding set. I think Simplicity is now out of business due to some recalls that did not include this crib.
The baby's changing dresser was also a gift and it matched the crib perfectly. Not sure of the make, but it was a Craigslist find. To avoid having the room weighted down by all cherry furniture we decided to go with a white bookshelf from Ikea. We also picked up a rug and window treatment there. In addition, we inserted a whiteboard laminate into the door recess panel for the parents to write notes and the munchkin to doodle (supervised).
The wall art was also a gift of sorts. My wife’s father (grandpa) is a novice artist, so we asked him to whip up a masterpiece for the wall and he did. The tree is complete with a tire swing labeled with our son’s name that is a unique design that you can’t get in any store.
Above the changing dresser we hung the pearlized belly cast of my wife’s 8 month pregnant torso.
Our last decorative undertaking was to incorporate grandpa’s guitar into the monkey business nursery theme wall decorations. It was already hanging the room when it was a lounge. We took it down to paint and because of the lath and plaster walls we had a huge hole to contend with. It was decided that we just throw it back up rather than try to patch the walls. The patch would have looked like a patch which was a problem. And we felt that after sharing his nursery with grandpa's guitar for the first years that maybe our son would get some musical inspiration.
One day I came back into the room and saw that my wife had adhered the Pop Monkey wall decals around to the guitar to make it seem as if they were dancing around it. Genius! I'm glad I decided to make babies with that woman.
FROM THE WEBMASTER
I'm a huge fan of guitars AND monkeys so when I saw how you managed to seamlessly blend the two together in your Monkey Business nursery theme design, I was really impressed! What a lucky little boy to have such devoted parents!
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